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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers Which is best OS for Desktop Post 302592620 by Corona688 on Tuesday 24th of January 2012 11:06:47 AM
Old 01-24-2012
Linux doesn't really have "fast" or "slow" settings. Why would anyone ever set it to anything but "fast"?

How long it takes to boot depends on what software it loads in the process, whether the system has sufficient memory, how fast the CPU is, and seek times on the disk it boots from.

The last is hard to change unless you start converting your machines over to solid-state drives; hard drives still seek slow; so a simple rule of thumb still holds: The bigger the system and the more services it loads on boot, the slower it loads. For this reason I tend to avoid large complicated GUI's.

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gnome-control-center(1) 					   User Commands					   gnome-control-center(1)

NAME
gnome-control-center, gnome-desktop-prefs - configure desktop preferences SYNOPSIS
gnome-control-center [gnome-std-options] [--noshell] DESCRIPTION
Desktop Preferences allows you to configure the GNOME desktop. If Nautilus is running, gnome-control-center will open up a new window and display all your preference tools. If Nautilus is not running, gnome-control-center will display a simple interface allowing you to select the preference tool to run. There are 3 categories of preference tools: Basic, Advanced, and Accessibility. Double-click on the tool that you require and the dialog for the tool will be displayed. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: --noshell Do not display the Desktop Preferences in Nautilus. This is not a supported interface. gnome-std-optionStandard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5). EXAMPLES
Example 1: Launching Desktop Preferences example% gnome-control-center EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Application exited successfully >0 Application exited with failure FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/gnome-control-cExecutable for Desktop Preferences interface ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+------------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+------------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-desktop-preferences | +-----------------------------+------------------------------+ |Interface stability |External | +-----------------------------+------------------------------+ SEE ALSO
Preference Tools Manual Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform. gnome-background-properties(1), gnome-font-properties(1), gnome-keyboard-properties(1), gnome-keybinding-properties(1), gnome-ui-proper- ties(1), gnome-mouse-properties(1), gnome-network-preferences(1), gnome-sound-properties(1), gnome-theme-properties(1), metacity-proper- ties(1), gnome-accessibility-keyboard-properties(1), cddb-slave2-properties(1), gnome-file-types-properties(1), gnome-panel-preferences(1), gnome-default-applications-properties(1), gnome-session-properties(1), gnome-std-options(5) NOTES
Written by Glynn Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003. SunOS 5.10 2 Oct 2003 gnome-control-center(1)
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